A/N: This poem is very reliant on the different connotations of each color, and they're all fairly obvious. The narrator is basically a clean, pristine white slate at the beginning. In one stanza I refer to spectrums and refraction, which might confuse people who aren't versed in basic optical science (I wasn't either until physics class), so a brief lesson, if you will: When a light source is shot through a prism, each color in the spectrum bends at slightly different angles when it exits. Blue light always refracts the most away from the normal, which is this invisible line perpendicular to the surface that the light is shooting through. And if that doesn't make sense either, no worries. I'm just trying to clarify a bit of the figurative language there. Otherwise, everything is pretty much straightforward. It's basically just a poem about falling for the "wrong" person.

I live my life in grayscaleAnd wonder if there's color in me presentlyYou say I bleed deep and red andDeep and red I'll stainFor I'm not pure enough for thePropriety of perfection and alabaster anymore

You move me so completelyThat your steps drown out the Gracelessness of my teenage virgin ineptitudeAnd the tone is decidedly violetThe heat of ruby lips tempered by cool baby bluesYou set out to conquer with your princely swagger

Like a diamond you exude spectrumsAnd you bend furthest away from the normalSo completely refracted and blueIn sapphire night you'll consume me nowAnd I'll gladly forfeit all I haveTo revel in tainted love without innocence

You paint me green and relishThe monster you've created in meFresh and not clean but passionately yoursThe toxicity of our union is not lost on meBut I covet our closeness anywayIt feels so completely natural

My world of monochrome turns prismaticAnd I see you flash a smile of pearly whiteI wish I were so shining and iridescent…Oh, but to dance immortal and fly awayDazzling in your arms like a stunning rainbow sinIt's all I could ever dream to hope for

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